Tim Perrino, artistic director of the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts, is seeking to build a more intimate, 250-seat theater in Price Hill's Incline District.

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A proposed $5 million performing arts theater in East Price Hill's budding Incline District is on the verge of having most of the money it needs to build.

The Incline Theater, announced almost a year ago, took a big jump from interesting concept to viable project with the recent award of up to $2 million in federal funding, said Rodger Pille, communications and development manager for Cincinnati Landmark Productions.

In addition, city leaders say they're prepared to kick in another $2 million from the recently created Focus 52 fund for neighborhood capital projects. ...